The film and television industry is built on ideas, and ideas travel fast. A screenplay submitted to a production company today can reappear in a slightly modified form months later, with no paperwork trail to prove your original authorship. Traditional copyright protection exists the moment you create a work under the Berne Convention, but proving when you created it is a separate challenge entirely.

Emailing yourself a screenplay or uploading it to a cloud drive are common workarounds, but courts have repeatedly found these methods legally contestable. The timestamp on a Gmail attachment can be altered; cloud metadata can be manipulated. What you need is a cryptographic timestamp that is mathematically impossible to backdate.

Swiss Trust Layer applies a qualified electronic seal under ZertES SR 943.03 and the European eIDAS Regulation (EU No 910/2014). The result is a tamper-proof record that proves your screenplay, treatment, pilot script, or production document existed at a specific moment in time, before you shared it with anyone. This certificate is accepted as court-admissible evidence in Switzerland and all 27 EU member states. In the 181 countries that have signed the Berne Convention your copyright already stands, and the certificate is what evidences it.

For international co-productions, which now represent a growing share of streaming content, the Berne Convention mutual recognition framework means your Swiss Trust Layer seal carries the same weight in Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, and Mumbai as it does in Zurich.